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La acacia que plantaron en otoño aún no ha empezado a echar hojas este año.
The locust tree they planted in the fall has not begun to leaf yet.
La carretera desembocaba en una plaza delimitada por acacias que comenzaban a echar hojas.
The road opened onto a square lined with flame trees just coming into leaf.
Los árboles empezaban a echar hojas y las casas urbanas de piedra arenisca parda resultaban pintorescas con las flores tempranas.
The trees were leafing and brownstone town houses were bright with early flowering.
El inmenso robledal que se extendía al norte de la isla junto al golfo incomprensiblemente llamado Tratan, [8] había empezado a echar hojas varios días antes.
The cluster of oaks around the inlet on the north side of the island the inlet that for some incomprehensible reason had always been known as the Quarrel started to come into leaf a few days earlier.
Los árboles empezaban a echar hojas y la maleza era imprecisa, todavía mezclada, sus hebras verdes con tallos marchitos desteñidos por el invierno, delicados como pajas, como huesos de pajaritos.
The trees were beginning to leaf and the undergrowth was sketchy, still mixed, its threads of green, with winter-bleached dead stalks delicate as straws, as bird bones.
El bosque a su alrededor era espeso y oscuro, pero delante, en dirección oeste, el follaje que rodeaba el seco lecho del río quedaba reducido a una vegetación baja de zarzas y matorrales que acababan de echar hojas.
The forest around him was thick and dark, but ahead to the west the foliage around the dry riverbank dwindled to a low growth of brambles and newly leafed bushes.
La esperanza sin fundamento es uno de los primeros síntomas de la primavera y se traduce por la inocente creencia de que el mundo podría enmendar sus errores e invertir su curso simplemente porque los árboles empiezan a echar hojas.
The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.
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